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Dubai Corporation for Tourism CEO on Visitor Comebacks

Bloomberg TV's Abeer Abu Omar speaks exclusively with Issam Kazim, CEO of Dubai Corporation for Tourism and Commerce Marketing at the Arabian Travel Market. He observes that Dubai has become a 'mature' city, with people now wanting to come to the region for a holiday or for residency, whereas it was previously a stopover destination. He says competition between regional players in the UAE is 'healthy' and important for attracting talent.

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SocGen Says Higher Yields May Put AI Debt Capex at Risk

Kokou Agbo-Bloua, global head of economics, cross-asset and quant research at Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking, discusses the rising 10-year Treasury yield and its impact on debt-fueled artificial intelligence capex. "If it goes to let's say 5.5% to 6% and growth doesn't pick up, because it's there simply reflecting higher nominal GDP, then you can sort of break the whole economics of AI debt capex," Agbo-Bloua tells Bloomberg Television.

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AI Trade Is in 'Digestion' Phase, JPMorgan's Sundar Says

Sitara Sundar, head of alternative investment strategy at JPMorgan Private Bank, discusses the outlook for the artificial intelligence trade. Speaking on Bloomberg Television, she says her firm still has a constructive view on the AI industry in the long run. "We would actually start to lean more into some of the integration and the application layer of artificial intelligence," she adds.

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UK Payrolls Drop More Than Expected

Britain's employers shed workers at the fastest rate in nine months, with the number of employees on company payrolls slipping 26,000 in August, according to the Office for National Statistics. The drop was worse than the 5,000 drop that economists expected, though the provisional estimates are often revised. Bloomberg's Sam Unsted breaks down the situation.

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Axa to Focus on Organic Growth, CEO Buberl Says

Axa Chief Executive Officer Thomas Buberl says the insurer will prioritize efficiency and shareholder returns over acquisitions after raising its profitability and growth targets for the next three years. "We will deploy and employ the policy as we've always done," Buberl tells Bloomberg Television. "We look at what is interesting when we talk about bolt-ons, but the focus is really organic growth."

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